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As the first secretary of Dundee Women's War Relief Executive Committee (DWWREC), [10] Henderson agreed that each city ward was to be given its own local committee. [24] She led the voluntary women's employment initiative with her group, including establishing a toy factory paying female workers and supporting unemployed women with financial ...
Joseph Johnston Lee (1876–1949) was a Scottish journalist, artist and poet, who chronicled life in the trenches and as a prisoner of war during World War I.He is also remembered for his dispute with then poet laureate Robert Bridges over the literary value of Robert Burns' work.
Agnes Husband (20 May 1852 – 30 April 1929) [1] was one of Dundee's first female councillors and was a suffragette. [2] She was awarded Freedom of the City at the age of 74 and has a plaque to her memory in the Dundee City Chambers and a portrait by Alec Grieve is in the McManus Galleries and Museum .
Arthur Boase (1833–1852) was born in Dundee and educated at Glenalmond College. [11] His grandson Captain Edgar Leslie Boase was killed at High Wood in the First World War serving with the 4th battalion Black Watch. He stood as the Unionist candidate against Churchill in the 1915 election in Dundee. [12]
1920 - Several of Dundee's leading jute firms including Cox Brothers, Gilroy and Sons and J. and A. D. Grimond are amalgamated as Jute Industries Ltd. [52] 1923 – The Caird Hall concert auditorium formally opened by Edward, Prince of Wales. [53] [54] 1925 – War memorial opens at the summit of Dundee Law. [55] 1933 – Dundee City Chambers ...
Jainti Saggar was born on 6 September 1898 in the village of Deharru in Ludhiana district, Punjab, British India. [2] He was the second son and the fourth of six children of Hindu parents, Ram Saran Dass Saggar (1870–1943), a merchant, and his wife, Sardhi Devi Uppal.
John Scrymgeour, 3rd Viscount Dudhope and 1st Earl of Dundee (d. 1668) was a member of the Scottish nobility and fought in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Biography [ edit ]
Both were from Dundee. They married on 28 June 1875 in the city. John Daniel Revel was born on 2 February 1884 in Dundee, one of their six children. In 1901 he was a student teacher training to be an art teacher at Dundee Art School. He studied under Thomas Dunn. [1] From 1906 he went to the Royal College of Art in London, and studied there to ...